Expand and Protect Social Security (19)
New Polling Shows Overwhelming Support for Adding a Caregiver Credit to Social Security
Written by Social Security Works
Poll shows that 68% of Americans favor counting caregiving for small children, chronically disabled relatives, and aging family members towards Social Security benefit calculations
It's time to expand Social Security, not cut it, Sen. Sherrod Brown says
Written by Stephen Koff | Cleveland Plain Dealer
Democrats and their supporters must stand up to Republicans who want to dismantle or cut Social Security benefits – and then they must expand, not curtail, those benefits, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown said Tuesday.
Fight for Big Ideas: Expand Social Security
Written by Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson | The Huffington Post
Why did Democrats lose on election night? Because not enough of them were fighting for big ideas. As Sen. Bernie Sanders says in the video at the top of the post, the American people are united in support of expanding Social Security, but too few candidates were talking about that big idea.
Happy Birthday Social Security: Time to Expand Your Protections
Written by Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson | The Huffington Post
Today marks 79 years since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Social Security into law on August 14th, 1935. Today, our Social Security system celebrates nearly eight decades of ensuring basic economic security for America's workers and their families when wages are lost as the result of death, disability, or old age.
Almost Every Slice of American Society Wants To Strengthen Social Security Except Washington Insiders
Written by Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet
Most Americans want better benefits, and they agree on how to pay for them. As strengthening Social Security becomes a higher profile issue in a handful of toss-up U.S. Senate races, a new poll of likely 2014 voters in those states and nationwide finds overwhelming support to boost benefits by taxing all Americans equally.